Hardwicke House, Ham Common

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Hardwicke House is a Grade II-listed house facing Ham Common in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. [1]

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Description

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Hardwicke House

Built in the Queen Anne style (1688), double fronted with three storeys, bow windows on the ground floor with a verandah on the left and a projecting porch. [2]

History

Hardwick House (as it was originally named) was designed in 1688 by Thomas Tryon, merchant, author and early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism, probably as a country residence as his main address was in Hackney.

John and Elizabeth Anne Brome are recorded here in the 1830s and 1841. [3]

About 1844 it was bought by John Lewis Cox, the first printer of The Builder in 1842 and master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1848. [4] [5] His family retired here and in 1851 they had a cook, lady's maid, housemail and a groom.

From 1851 to 1868 the house was owned by Sir John Ralphe Milbanke, Bt., as an investment. [4] On the 1861 census the house was occupied by Elizabeth Busk, a foreign merchant. [6]

In 1913 Mary Elizabeth Sydney Pigott, only daughter of Sir Thomas Pigott, 2nd Bt., died here. [7] Alex Koch de Gooreynd settled in Hardwicke House in 1921. [8]

Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was living here in 1939. [9]

Filming

It was used in Waitrose's Christmas advert 2025. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Hardwicke House (1358074)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Hardwicke - TW10". Fresh Locations Limited.
  3. ↑ "Elizabeth Anne Brome". Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History. 2025.
  4. 1 2 Church, Judith (2023). "The tenant of Hardwick House". Richmond History. 43: 90–92.
  5. ↑ Rivington, Charles (1882). "The records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers" (PDF). Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. VI: 337 – via London and Middlesex Archaeological Society.
  6. ↑ Pritchard, Evelyn (1991). A portrait of Ham in Early Victorian times 1840-1860. p. 36.
  7. ↑ "Deaths". Clifton Society. 8 May 1913. p. 12.
  8. ↑ "Back from Egypt". Daily Mirror. 15 April 1921. p. 5.
  9. ↑ 1939 Register. Hardwicke House Ham Common, Richmond Upon Thames, Richmond M.B. RG101/1382E/004/12  1382E 4 12
  10. ↑ "Richmond on screen: What's been filmed in Richmond upon Thames". London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. 15 January 2026.

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